Self Portrait with Juxtaposed Polka
by Paul

Comment:
This is pretty cool, but a bit of a shoehorn IMO. It's like saying "do a landscape," and I shoot an image in which half is a sexy girl in a car, and half is a mirror in which you see a pretty bland landscape that's off to the side.

Berry Red Dots
by briandsd

Comment:
Well this is something I haven't seen so far in this challenge. Nice DOF, but a bit bland.

!Feliz NaviDOTS!
by 777STAN

Comment:
Great idea, but they're a bit widely/unevenly spaced for polka dots. Also, there's some motion blur on the bottom.

Curious incident of a spider in the dots zone
by Glanni

Comment:
Nice, but seems a bit too set up and the "manufactured" polka dots don't do it for me. I like how it's desaturated, that's how dark places really look.

pied beauty
by posthumous

Comment:
I can't really see these as polka dots because of all the intersecting lines and the lack of roundness. Nice impressionism (it's impressionism, right?), though the right side is a bit too sharp.

Slinky
by odriew

Comment:
Hmm, bokeh polka dots. I tend to think of polka dots as more on a fabric or other surface rather than in mid-air, but these seem to create their own surface so that makes it sort-of okay to me (sorry, I'm kind of anal when it comes to these). Reminds me of my Twisted II entry. Good concept, but a bit uninteresting (more interesting than mine though).

The Sky is Falling
by pointandshoot

Comment:
I see blotches in the sky, and stripes on the bird... but no polka dots. Well taken image, very weird (in a good way) composition.

Dotzilla
by tanguera

Comment:
The dots seem too manufactured here - I think of printed or sewn dots (or dots on an animal) when I think of polka dots, not so much lighting through holes. That's personal preference, I know, but that's how voting goes. The DOF is a bit shallow, with the blurry nose becoming a bit of a distraction. Good composition. Perhaps color would've worked better to make it a bit more interesting?

Escape!
by dtremain

Comment:
Well, there's polka dots and plenty of color and it's pretty sharp... but I'm not sure I understand what's going on in the image. Also, the light seems uneven, like on-camera flash.

Mind the Dog Please
by Blackbox

Comment:
Good use of polka dots, but it's not a very well-taken image. Seems like either noise, noise reduction, or motion blur (or all three?) is making it a bit soft, and it seems oversharpened. Also, it looks like you sharpened after adding the border, creating a white halo.